Date of Award
Spring 6-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Anther Kiley
Second Advisor
Pouya Ahmadi
Third Advisor
Leah Beeferman
Abstract
Endless Form is a gentle argument for a practice rooted in embodied seeing and communicating. It invites the reader through multiple actions of visual and linguistic perception – observation, seeing, and attention – and examines how these methods operate to widen our fields of understanding to more empathetically engage with the world as an ecological whole. It claims that graphic design, as a practice built on the relationship between visual form and language, has a unique ability to translate the unending feedback loop between the eye, the seen, and the language we use to define it. It argues for ways of close seeing that leads to empathy for its subject, and allows for the simultaneity and multiplicity of the world to be a source for constant engagement and inspiration.
Recommended Citation
Kennedy, Kaela, "Endless Form" (2024). Masters Theses. 1292.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1292
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